Carla Stecco MD

Orthopedic Surgeon

Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials, University of Padova, Italy

Professor of Human Anatomy and Movement Sciences, University of Padova, Italy

Founder Member of the Fascial Manipulation Association and of the Fascial Research Society

Dr. Carla Stecco is a member of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology, of the European Association of Clinical Anatomy and of the International Academy of Manual Musculoskeletal Medicine. Her scientific activity is devoted to the study of the anatomy of the human fasciae from a macroscopical, histological and physiopathological point of view. She personally made over 200 cadaver dissections for research.

From 2000, she organizes and personally holds theoretical-practical courses about the Fascial Manipulation technique both in Italy and in other countries. Dr. Carla Stecco is the author of more than 100 in extenso papers about the fascial anatomy. She is the author of two books about the Fascial Manipulation (Piccin ed.), translated in 11 languages, and of some chapters about the fascial anatomy or the Fascial Manipulation Technique. She is the author of the first photographic atlas about fasciae: “Functional atlas of human fasciae” (2015, Elsevier ed.).